Distinct Frontal Regions for Processing Sentence Syntax and Story Grammar

Distinct frontal regions for processing sentence syntax and story grammar.

Time is a fundamental dimension of cognition. It is expressed in the sequential ordering of individual elements in a wide variety of activities such as language, motor control or in the broader domain of long range goal-directed actions. Several studies have shown the importance of the frontal lobes in sequencing information. The question addressed in this study is whether this brain region hos...

Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing

Syntax and semantics for sentence processing in English and Māori

This paper provides an account of the syntactic and semantic representations used in Te Kaitito, a bilingual English/Māori natural language processing system. With the exception of some very simple systems (e.g. Leslie, 1998), the grammar given in Te Kaitito is the first implemented computational grammar for Māori, indeed (we believe) for any Polynesian language. It is therefore of interest to ...

Syntax and Sentence Interpretation

Linguistic communication is a process whereby two or more individuals may send and receive messages encoded in a human language. A structural unit of these languages is the sentence. A theory of sentence interpretation seeks to explain how skilled listeners routinely interpret a wide variety of utterances encountered in their everyday linguistic activities. The nature of understanding. An issue...

Story Diagrams – Syntax and Semantics